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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A few of us from the Detective Instinct team, among many other friends, made a game for GBJAM this year! Definitely one of the more bizarre and ambitious things we've done for this jam over the years: gallowaygames.itch.io/don-bruto-an...

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One thing I greatly enjoy is when games localize food into something arguably appropriate for the target region, but that feels weird in context - like Maya with burgers, or the hot dogs in FF8. I think this is what I was channeling when I made hot dogs the protagonist's main concern in DI 🌭

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Portopia remake with a similar "something old, something new" approach as last year's Okhotsk remake and by the same development team. Looks awesome. The Steam page is translated, but it doesn't appear to support any languages other than Japanese 😔

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dude! A Portopia remake was announced in the Japanese Direct! youtu.be/IF2PBtDtBmk?...

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続ポートピア連続殺人事件:忘却の埋葬 [Nintendo Direct 2026.9.9]

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally had some time to make another music analysis video. This one was fun for me, as Ema - particularly in Apollo Justice - is one of my favorite Ace Attorney characters.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Summer is coming to an end, so why not study abroad this semester and solve a mystery in Detective Instinct? 🚂 Our spin on DS-era mystery adventures is 30% off on both Steam and Switch for the next two weeks. Check it out!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Still so cool to me how Emio was an unapologetically classic FDC-style command-select adventure. It's one thing for freak indie devs like us to do it, but for Nintendo to release a brand new game like that with no compromises really surprised me. They should do it again!

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Emio: The Smiling Man and Nintendo actually posted an illustration to celebrate the occasion on the Nintendo Today app. Still can't believe that we actually got a new installment in the Famicom Detective Club series. Even more unbelievable that it turned out so good.

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thinking about RPG battle themes, as I often do. Has there ever been a 30ish second loop more absolutely perfect and endlessly listenable than this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lNQ...

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Shooting Enemy | Mega Man Battle Network 3 Extended OST

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Kamaitachi no Yoru is simply one of the most important Japanese games in history, period. In the historical trajectory of novel games, if Otogirisou, Chunsoft's previous gane, is Pac-Land, this is Super Mario Brothers. It is that foundational in the storytelling and design paradigms it codified.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been slowly making my way through of the Devil lately, and it's really great. Very unique take on Ace Attorney-ish gameplay with really confident aesthetics and storytelling. Definitely check it out!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Have YOU been meaning to check out Detective Instinct? Today's the last full day of our 30% off sale on Steam 🚂 - Dramatic story with a mystery on a train - DS-era aesthetics - Classic command-select adventure gameplay Give it a look 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Steam's Train Fest is live, and our train-themed mystery adventure is 30% off 👀 And not just that, but we have a bundle with another participating ADV from our friends at @togeproductions, Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville! A great deal for two great train mysteries 🚂⬇️

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nice review of a really lovely game. Should go without saying coming from us, but the world could use more "linear" narrative-focused adventure games. And if you like Hotel Dusk, don't forget to play Last Window, too!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our award-winning mystery adventure game is still 25% off for the last few days of the Steam Summer Sale! We also have a few bundles available with some other great indie ADVs 👁️ Check it out ⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today's news really reinforces how much I'd like to do a Detective Instinct physical release someday. It never would've occurred to me that such a thing might not even be an option in the near future 😥

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

TooManyGames was amazing. Nothing beats getting out and actually meeting other developers and players in person, and I still can't believe we walked away with three award nominations (including Best In Show ‼️) and a win for Best Visual Novel. An all-around great event, we will definitely be back 😎

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We're extremely honored to have won the Best Visual Novel award at TooManyGames! We set out to make the kind of game that we wanted to play, with no real expectations, so to get this kind of recognition is surreal. So thankful to everyone who has enjoyed the game 🙂‍↕️

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We're here at the TooManyGames indie showcase (complete with model train 🚂) Come stop by if you're here this weekend! You may even have a chance to demo our mythical SNES build 👁️

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Very excited to share this bundle, and a big thanks to @kbutzkorner.bsky.social for the wonderful cover art!

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Space Colony Studios @spacecolonystudios.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The ADV genre is still very much alive. Two modern titles, inspired by two different eras, with two dramatic and mysterious stories to uncover 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵: 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘔𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 and 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘰𝘭: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘯-𝘋𝘰𝘨 join together in this indie ADV bundle! store.steampowered.com/bundle/79217/

A banner ad for the bundle of Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved and Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog. The banner features Emma and Cassie toward the middle with a train by Emma and a space ship by Cassie.

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Astrolabe Games @astrolabegames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two of 2025's best indie adventure games / #visualnovel are now available together in one bundle! Enjoy the PC-98-inspired sci-fi drama Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog alongside the DS-inspired, command-select mystery of Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved! store.steampowered.com/bundle/79217

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Before Detective Instinct, many members of our team collaborated on making games for GBJam, a Game Boy themed game jam. Great times. Learned a lot, and had the opportunity to compose a lot of music for GB limitations, one of my favorite things to do 😌 You can play 'em here: gallowaygames.itch.io

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Oooh, cool! The next issue of Famitsu is gonna have a big feature on the current state of adventure games. Looks like there will be a bunch of interviews with various modern creators like Takanari Ishiyama (Paranormasight), Toshiyuki Hata (Magical Girl Witch Trials), and Oden/Kikkyawa (Urban Myth).

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

ICYMI: We'll have a booth at TooManyGames from June 26-28, and we're nominated for the Best Visual Novel award! If you're going, come visit us! We'll have demo stations to play the game on many platforms 👀

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Kars @karoshimyriad.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

TooManyGames 2026 Indie Game Showcase Award nominations for "Best Visual Novel": - of the Devil (nth Circle Studios) - DIGITAL EXORCIST (COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONS) - Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (Armonica) - Rain98 (C#4R4CT3R) toomanygames.com/toomanygames...

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our good friend Adam provided much of the pixel art and art direction for Cursemark, and it's looking great! It just launched in early access, give it a try if you think it looks up your alley!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Detective Instinct will have a booth at TooManyGames later this month, from June 26-28! If you're around the Philadelphia area, come by and say hi! We may even have some fun surprises at our booth 👀 toomanygames.com

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Scorsese's storyboards for Taxi Driver were a big inspiration for me, a poor artist, to feel confident drawing ideas to share with our illustrators for DI. I can't understand why so much of the older generation of artists are swayed by this crap when they already had it all figured out.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A recent user review of our indie mystery adventure game put it this way: "Playing this game is like a rainy Sunday evening wrapped up in a blanket watching Columbo." If that sounds as appealing to you as it does to me, we're 25% off on Switch in the US for the next week 🌞

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

DQ heroes are usually designed somewhat generically to make it easy for players to project their own personality onto them, so I find this hero design interesting, since it has a lot of its own weird character. See the (alleged) DQ6 hero first draft in comparison to the final to see what I mean:

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wonder what this means for Toriyama and Sugiyama's contributions, which were surely done well before this development restart?

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My video about the history of Chunsoft's sound novels has reached over 25,000 views! Thanks to everyone that has watched it since its release! And if you haven't seen the video yet, give it a look to learn about the franchise that popularized novel games in Japan www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

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The History of Chunsoft's Sound Novels

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We're participating in The Storyteller's Festival with our 25% discount 😊 This is always one of the best Steam events each year with great deals and demos on narrative games, so be sure to check it out! store.steampowered.com/developer/Tw...

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

These devs (us) made an ADV game that feels like something straight off the DS 👀 - Compelling mystery about a vanishing woman on a train - Gameplay like investigations in Ace Attorney/Famicom Detective Club - Pre-rendered 3D BGs It's called Detective Instinct. And it's 25% off on Steam right now!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Did you know? Our OST is available on Bandcamp with a full liner notes booklet - AND it's Bandcamp Friday, the perfect day (for me) for you to check it out 👀 Here's a preview of the booklet, which has commentary on every tune and details about the game! 🔽 jalopestl.bandcamp.com/album/detect...

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cullen Forever! The Show The Movie @cullenforever.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Next day bump, watch my new vid so I don't feel tempted to have to retitle it to THE REVIVAL OF A GENRE THAT TIME FORGOT and switch the thumbnail to something with Mr beast

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you'd like to watch someone who really gets it speak passionately about Detective Instinct, look no further than this video, which I found extremely moving.

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cullen Forever! The Show The Movie @cullenforever.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

WE'RE BACK, BABY! For half a year I have been working on a love letter to a love letter. 2025's indie point and click adventure game, Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved spoke to me in ways games just don't anymore. Check out my new vid: youtu.be/qMorKzjEoUg

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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE - Detective Instinct, Farewell My Beloved

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Big fan of this one, too. The original design of the protagonist with the red cardigan is great. I think it's cool how malleable the designs of these characters and the art style has been over time.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

One of my favorite pieces of Famicom Detective Club promo art!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm in a good mood. Weather's nice, weekend's almost here. So how about a quick discount? 💵 Our DS-inspired adventure game is 25% off on Switch for the next week. The perfect game to take outside with you on a warm spring afternoon 🌞

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The first CD I've bought in over a decade. How could I resist?

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

All the characters in Hotel Dusk and Last Window are rotoscoped based on performances done by various models. Below are a few of the confirmed models that played the cast of Last Window, many of which came from the Avocado modeling agency. (1/2)

Pictures of various models and the characters they portray in Last Window.

Charles Jeunet: Dario Baergamini
Frank Raver: Dick Cropp
Rachel: Elena Takenouchi
Margaret Patrice: Cynthia Cheston

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

True story: Detective Instinct was originally going to be a Beatles fangame. In the end, we scrapped it to do something completely different, with this one NPC the only remaining hint at the project's true origins. Peace and love to everyone at this beginning of April ☮️❤️

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Development on Detective Instinct started around this time 4 years ago ‼️ Here's a handful of character sketches from March 2022. At this point, the story treatment was finished and programming had just begun. Hard to believe it's been so long.

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One upside of making a mystery game that takes place on a train is that you have no shortage of great visual reference material to pull from. Here's some stills from various movies I compiled early in development. Can you guess what all of these are from? 🤔

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